TAROT

Three of Swords (Reversed) § Six of Wands §Two of Wands

The Three of Swords depicts a classic triangulation. If you have been struggling with a love triangle or a lopsided friendship group, you won’t be for much longer. The Three of Swords in reverse is a triangle set on its point: It will fall to the left or to the right, recreating a pyramid shape but shifting the points that make the foundation. The secret third option, however, is complete collapse. The suit of Swords represents the mind and how we navigate the human world, which is a place built entirely from our capacity to conceptualize. Play a game with yourself—find all the triangulated relationships in your life. The third piece does not have to be a person. You might form a triangle with a person and, maybe, a house or money or health insurance or fear. If you spend any amount of time trying to avoid someone’s bad side, you have a triangular problem. Be objective about where and how you fit into the triangles of your life. You may have options, but you don’t hold all the cards. The Three of Swords reversed reminds us that people are not going to change just because we want them to. If you leave the triangle, it collapses.

The Six of Wands is victory. Look for a small, even petty win that has happened recently and call it for yourself. Name and claim every fortunate turn and serendipitous accident you can remember and feel the spirits it puts you in. There is a great deal of willingness from people to assist you, to see you in the light that makes you feel the most like yourself. This might be a big moment for you, or maybe it is more subtle. Maybe it’s just you seeing yourself for the first time. Carnival operators used to hang brass rings in the canopy of the carousel where riders would do their best to grab one when their horses rose up toward the top. If you wanted a brass ring you had to reach, you had to try, you had to pay attention to when and where your best chances would come. Sometimes it is a matter of growing enough to reach it, but showing up and trying is always required. Keep your focus on the people supporting your success. Think carefully about who you allow in your circle. The era of the frenemy is over. You are seen by the people who will expand your life and help you to level up. Accept compliments like you deserve them, because you do.

The Two of Wands is the signal to stop gaslighting yourself, because you have the information you need in order to choose and to choose well. Visions are meant to be understood through the process of actualizing them. Inspired ideas that become real look different than they appeared in your initial imagining. Guard your right to not know something. Shut down the voices in your mind that criticize your every move, because those words are all lies. Bringing anything to life requires a tolerance for the possibility of failure and a temperament nuanced enough to grow through the unknown. The figure in the Two of Wands is ready to mull over what they do in fact know and commit to the road they will travel next. Don’t let the critic’s voice in your head or in your life cause you to panic. It’s not your role in the cosmos to find the path on which nothing fails.